According to state media reports, authorities have so far spent about 50 billion yuan ( US$7.77 billion) on clean-up work and environmental treatment. Since 1995, the local government began ramping up efforts to restore Dianchi Lake. From about 10 people at the very beginning, the number grew to more than 100 at the highest, with the youngest being 38 years old and eldest 62 years old. 'The work is so heavy that we need to squeeze out time as much as possible.'Дespite the hardships, members of the salvage team kept up their work and more women began to join. 'Each raft can salvage 250 kg to 300 kg of rubbish at that time, including the dead water plants, water hyacinth, moss and white garbage,' Li said. She would spend 10 hours on the raft when the pollution was heaviest in 1990s, and had her lunch on the lake surrounded by smelly and murky water. 'The job is tiring and dirty, but I feel gratified as what I do can contribute to the pollution treatment of our mother lake.' Li, the current leader of team, said with pride.ДЄs early as 5 a.m., Li would get up and prepare food for the day. They replaced fishing boats with more maneuverable rafts, and used their hands and simple nets instead of the larger fishing nets. When a mother left, she passed the baton to a daughter. 'I grew up here near Dianchi Lake, the clean-up job is for our mother lake, for myself and also for the good of our next generation,' she said.ДЇor the past 30 years, multiple generations of the all-women salvage team worked away on the lake. Li joined in the early years of the team's formation. A team was formed that year by volunteers to clear the algae and pick up the garbage. In 1986 when fishing in Dianchi Lake became more and more untenable, the men in generational fishing families in the area dropped their gear and went elsewhere to earn a living.Д«ut for Li and other women born near the waters and lived there all their lives, Dianchi Lake was their hope. She and other women on their salvage rafts began contributing to a 30-year effort around the lake to return it to its former splendor. To help reverse the environmental damage and restore her mother lake, Li joined a new family вЂ“ the all-female salvage team in Kunming's Xishan district. And you can't even move your paddles in some areas where the algae was very thick.' 'The lake's surface was blanketed by a layer of blue and green algae. 'The water was murky and smelly,' Li recalled. After a mere decade, Dianchi became one of the most polluted lakes in China, with the water quality rated 'inferior to Grade V,' the worst level in the national grading system. Rapid urbanization and industrialization began to lay waste to the lake's environment and ecosystem. The 58-year-old also remembered when this tranquil life ended in the 1980s for her and others who depended on the lake for their livelihoods. She remembered joining her family every day to go fishing and return with the boat filled with bounties of the lake. The lyrics could have perfectly captured Li Yunli's life in her youth.

Row your boat, dance with fish, and happily return home after sunset.' 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - This is a report from China SCIO:ДЄtop the plateaus of southwestern China's Yunnan province and next to provincial capital Kunming lies Dianchi Lake, known as the 'sparking pearl embedded in the plateau.' A local nursery rhythm describes its beauty: 'Dianchi Lake stretches far into the sky with clear water sparkling in boundless width.

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